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Escaping Love
Today when I look back, I wonder
All the pain and heartbreak, was it not just an adolescent blunder
Is any man worth so much of anguish?
My brain shouts “No”, my heart sighs “Yes”!
In liking a person, in making a friend
My heart can’t help itself despite my brain’s cautious tread
I know it’ll hurt me crazy if I involve my emotions
Yet I do just what I ought not have done; in confusion?
I know he can make or break me, I’ve given him that power
And all the while, deep down within me, there’s raging a war
I hate him for the control he has over me
Yet I can’t stop loving him, it’s there for the world to see!
A clean break with him, that’s what I make to escape from love
No more commitments or promises to keep, I’m free as a dove
Yet, the ways of life are so strangely contradictory
I think I’ve won yet there’s no victory.
-Marisha
1998-99